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Full closure of East First between Clark and Nanaimo starts July 3 Heavier trafﬁc expected on Hastings and Broadway routes

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The post-long weekend drive in and out of Vancouver could wind up being a chore for some drivers. A full closure of East First between Clark Drive and Nanaimo Street begins July 3 and will last until Aug. 31. Partial lane closures have been taking place since the end of May to accommodate construction on a new gas line. FortisBC is replacing 20 kilometres of gas line between Coquitlam and Vancouver. Drivers won’t be the only ones inconvenienced by the full closure — so will nearby residents and shop owners. FortisBC spokesman Trevor Wales said the utility has been working with the Commercial Drive Business Society to address concerns about issues such as access and parking. It’s also worked one-on-one with businesses. “Some of the ways that we’re offering support throughout construction is by informing nearby resi-

Fortis BC is replacing 20 kilometres of gas line between Coquitlam and Vancouver. So far, this has resulted in partial lane closures along East First Avenue in Vancouver. On July 3, a full closure of East First between Clark Drive and Nanaimo Street begins. It will last two months. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

dents and commuters that businesses will remain open throughout construction, even though roads may be closed,” Wales wrote in an email to the Courier. “We’re highlighting businesses as part of a regular project newsletter, on our social media channels and project

website, talkingenergy.ca, and also promoting them through additional events and prize packages.” Fortis will hold its fourth “coffee chat,” where the public can speak directly to its team about their questions or concerns, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Cassia Bake Shop June 28.

Wales said the utility has also met with the Grandview-Woodland Area Council and it’s been working with residents whose concerns are largely focused on trafﬁc impacts in the neighbourhood. He said Fortis and the City of Vancouver are working together

to mitigate those concerns. In response to feedback from the community, he said additional “local trafﬁc only” signs and speed reader boards were set up in local neighbourhoods. “We’ve also been working collaboratively with the city to have dedicated VPD personnel deployed when needed to cut down on short-cutting and enforce detour signage,” he wrote, adding that the city will continue to monitor trafﬁc and make adjustments when necessary. Rush hour regulations on Broadway, for instance, were extended on June 25 in anticipation of the upcoming full closure. Fortis and the city are also working with the VPD and neighbourhoods on enforcement at problem areas to deal with drivers who are stop sign running, failing to yield and speeding. The City of Vancouver, meanwhile, is encouraging commuters to choose alternate routes that suit their destinations, but the city expects most drivers will take Hastings or Broadway.

Some measures put in place to help manage the traffic during the gas line construction work include: • Trenchless construction across major intersections to avoid impacts on north/ south arterials, including Commercial Drive, Clark Drive and Nanaimo Street • Updated rush hour and bus lane regulations along Broadway and Hastings Street by extending morning regulations by 30 minutes (7 to 10 a.m.) and late afternoon regulations by one hour (3 to 7 p.m.). • Temporary traffic calming measures on Adanac Street to help reduce non-local traffic travelling through the area • Limiting the use of the Adanac Overpass, from Highway 1 to Cassiar, to buses and people walking or cycling • Dedicated VPD personnel to enforce detour signage and deter short-cutting • Installation of new left turn lanes, north and southbound, on Renfrew Street at East Hastings Street. @naoibh

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Vision announces potential council candidates Party’s nomination meeting set for July 8 Jessica Kerr

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Vision Vancouver has announced the pool of potential council and park board candidates. On July 8, party members will choose from eight potential candidates to ﬁll the four available spots on the Vision slate, joining Coun. Heather Deal, the lone Vision incumbent running for re-election in October. Earlier this month, the party announced it would run ﬁve council candidates, three for school board and two for park board after signing onto an agreement with the Vancouver and District Labour Council. Long-time Coun. Raymond Louie announced last week that he will not seek another term on council. The council nominees include: • Diego Cardona, Vision’s candidate in the 2017 by-election, a social justice activist who has worked with a variety

of organizations, including Fresh Voices, which aims to make B.C. and Canada a better place for young immigrants and refugees. Most recently he was programs coordinator at Kiwassa Neighbourhood House. • Current school board trustee Ken Clement, who is the Vancouver’s ﬁrst Aboriginal school trustee and the CEO of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network. • Coco Culbertson, who has worked in harm reduction and has been a community leader in the Downtown Eastside for more than 15 years and is a senior manager at the Portland Hotel Society. • Catherine Evans, current park board commissioner and former Vancouver library board chair, business owner and lawyer, who is passionate about equality, the environment and inclusive, accessible public spaces. • Tanya Paz, a leader in active transportation, car sharing, sustainability and community planning. She advocates for safer streets, better transit and building the city’s green economy. • Michael Samson is a

Park board commissioner Catherine Evans and Diego Cardona during the 2017 by-election campaign. Both are among a slate of eight potential council candidates Vision Vancouver party members will choose from at the party’s nomination meeting July 8. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

successful business leader and founder of Ripple Effect Society, a non-proﬁt organization, and founder and president of Inspire Canada. • Margot Sangster, an experienced public health professional currently working in residential addictions treatment. She previously worked with Vancouver

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members will choose from three potential candidates: • Cole Rheaume, a former sustainability consultant and long-time managing partner with Mi’kmwesu Management who works as a facilitator and developing programs and policy initiatives. • Shamim Shivji, a lawyer,

mediator and former president of the West Point Grey Community Association. • Cameron Zubko, a Metis business owner with 20 years of experience building partnerships and infrastructure across the country. He currently serves on the city’s Urban Indigenous People’s Advisory Committee. Ian Campbell, a Squamish Nation hereditary chief, was acclaimed as the party’s mayoral candidate earlier this month after his only competition, Taleeb Noormohamed, pulled out of the leadership race after suffering a “sudden cardiac event.” The party’s nomination meeting is set for Sunday, July 8 at Creekside Community Centre. The Green Party’s nomination meeting was Wednesday night, after the Courier’s deadline. And the NPA has yet to announce a date for its meeting to choose its nominees for council, park board and school board. Businessman Ken Sim won the party’s mayoral nomination earlier this month. @JessicaEKerr

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Positive reaction to Arbutus Greenway design concept

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On average, more than 75 per cent of survey respondents like or really like proposed design concepts for Arbutus Greenway “character zones,” says to the City of Vancouver. A summary of consultation results was unveiled June 19. The city’s overall design concept, released in April, envisions eight zones along the route that are inspired by features of the areas. Zones include Harvest Table, Electric Alley, the Ridge, Woodland Bend, Kerrydale Pass, Garden Path, Marpole Meander and The Lookout. The design concept also outlines plans for the pedestrian and bike paths, the future street car route, potential north and south connections and the excess lands that could help fund construction of the greenway. The design document is meant to be a high-level, over-arching vision for the corridor. When staff eventually get into the detailed design work for areas such as Electric Alley, it will be a matter of taking the highlevel design concept and ﬁguring out how it works on the ground. For the latest round of consultation, staff collected feedback through an online survey, open houses, as well as meetings with advisory committees and interest groups. Participants’ suggestions included a desire that the city make sure the design is safe, comfortable and easy to use, that additional amenities such as washrooms and seating are included, and that care is taken not to “over design.” Participants also highlighted the importance of

A rendering of zone three, The Ridge, according to preliminary design concepts for Arbutus Greenway that were released in April. Feedback from the latest round of public consultations has been positive. RENDERING COURTESY CITY OF VANCOUVER

north and south connections to the seawall and down to the Fraser River, while only three out of ﬁve surveyed (59 per cent) supported the proposed use of excess lands to help fund construction costs. Paul Storer, the city’s manager of transportation design, told the Courier that staff met with more than 1,000 people in the latest round of consultation and that, generally speaking, they heard “really positive feedback.” “I think people who were involved in the early stages [of the design process] saw that their comments were reﬂected,” he said. “…We heard good comments from people about all of the zones. When we go to council, we’re going to be trying to incorporate the feedback as well as possible. When we get into the real details of the design, we’ll be having more engagement with the public and getting

more into how those ideas are represented.” Some concerns were raised about safety issues with respect to transportation design — more than a quarter (28 per cent) cited safety aspects or emphasized ease of use. Concern about intersections was a recurring theme, according to the city, as was a desire for improved connections to surrounding neighbourhoods. Storer acknowledged staff did hear people say some of the existing intersections on the temporary greenway aren’t working as well as they could. “Our goal is to keep addressing [issues] on the temporary pathway outside of the context of the development of the long-term greenway,” he said. While a portion of respondents were either neutral, disliked or really disliked the design concept, Storer said staff tried to “dig into” the comments

to really understand what the issues were, which will help inform future detailed design work. Staff have identiﬁed two parcels of excess land outside of the greenway on the adjacent street right-of-way serving East Boulevard in Kerrisdale (zone 5). One parcel is between 37th and 39th on East Boulevard; the other is between 39th and 40th. Any potential rezoning of the excess land would be considered in a future planning process that includes public consultation. Storer said the land between 37th and 39th is large enough to develop housing or something similar, while more detailed work would need to be done to see if anything is possible for the land between 39th and 40th. “All of that is really dependent on a future planning process that will be happening in the Kerrisdale

area. That will be looking at the bigger town centre and what needs to happen there and how these parcels might ﬁt into that,” he said. (The two parcels of excess land is in addition to the Option Lands between West First Avenue and West Fifth Avenue. The Option Lands, which total about 6,460 square metres, aren’t needed for the greenway. If they are rezoned, CPR has the option to repurchase the lands from the city. If CPR doesn’t exercise that option, it will share in the proceeds of any sale.) Storer said he’s not surprised by the mixed reaction to the possibility of using the Kerrisdale excess land to help fund the greenway’s construction. “Right now, it’s a road right-of-way so it does have some uses. It’s a rightof-way outside the high school there, so some of the circulation in the area would have to change,” he said. “That was one of the

concerns that we heard. One of the other concerns that we heard was people didn’t understand what would happen with it. That’s a fair concern, which is why we need to do planning in the bigger area to determine what that would be used for.” Exactly how much the development of the greenway will cost is uncertain — it’s nine kilometres long and it’s not often the city embarks on such a planning process. Storer compared it to the seawall, a project that was developed over decades without a specific goal in terms of budget. “What we’re doing on the Arbutus Greenway is similar to that. We’re trying to figure out what is it that the city wants this greenway to be and we’re developing the design vision around that,” he said. “Through the capital planning process, we’ll be looking for funding. Depending on how much funding we get will inform how much of the greenway we’re able to develop. The idea is that this would be delivered over many capital plans, probably decades, when it’s all said and done.” In July, city staff expect to present two documents to city council — one that outlines the overall design vision for Arbutus Greenway and one that is an implementation strategy, which includes what staff think are the best pieces to invest in first. If approved, detailed design work on the prioritized sections would begin. It would include public consultation. Construction likely wouldn’t start for a year or two; however, the city hopes to start working on the north and south connections in 2019. @naoibh

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Vancouver city council has approved staff recommendations on how to spend $8 million worth of empty home tax revenue it’s collected to date. The City of Vancouver expects it will collect $30 million from the tax in the first year, but implementation and operating costs will eat up $10 million, leaving $20 million to be invested on affordable housing initiatives. About $18 million of the anticipated $30 million has been collected so far, which, after implementation and operating costs are covered, produces $8 million for distribution. The money will be split as follows: • $3.175 million: more affordable co-op and non-profit housing. It will be invested in providing land and resources for affordable non-profit and co-op housing. • $1 million: more affordable co-op and non-profit housing grants to update and improve existing co-ops and build new co-ops. • $3.5 million: Improvements to low-income housing. The money will contribute to the purchase of buildings and/or to provide assistance toward improved living conditions in private SRO housing. • $100,000: Support for vulnerable renters. The money will provide

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support to renters facing eviction. • $75,000: Support for vulnerable renters. The money will go towards the Vancouver Rent Bank. • $100,000: Funding for skills training in peer support, affordable housing management, and asset training for residents of supportive housing. The basis for the idea was dreamed up at a recent one-day workshop. Proponents called the initiative “temporary modular college”: temporary modular housing with on-site peer-based mentorship programming. • $50,000: Matching empty/underutilized homes and rooms with renters looking for housing. The money will support shared housing models such as senior/student housing arrangements.

Staff recommendations were informed by public feedback collected during a consultation process that included an online survey and a one-day “idea jam.” “I’m very pleased that council has approved a variety of new affordable housing investments funded by Vancouver’s ﬁrst Empty Homes Tax,” Mayor Gregor Robertson stated in a June 21 press release. “Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit, like, and comment on your favourite housing ideas. We will now be moving forward with new initiatives that will boost support for low-income renters, create more co-op and non-proﬁt housing, and look at new opportunities to make the best use of our existing rental housing.”

What it costs to implement and administer the Empty Homes Tax More than half of the $18 million is going towards one-time implementation costs ($7.4 million) and operating costs ($2.6 million). Here’s how the one-time $7.4 million implementation cost breaks down. The cost, spread over 2016, 2017 and 2018, included project team resources, set-up costs for the new administration, audit and collection team costs and technology costs to automate the process: • $800,000: project team ($80,000 less than originally budgeted) • $850,000: business support ($670,000 more than originally budgeted) • $2.1 million: technical ($650,000 more than originally budgeted) • $2.75 million: professional services ($1.35 million more than originally budgeted)

• $400,000: hardware and software ($300,000 more than originally budgeted) • $500,000: contingency ($190,000 less than originally budgeted) Business support, according to a June 20, 2017 staff report, included internal subject matter experts in areas such as revenue services, tax policy, housing policy, legal services and communications. It also covered costs for Vacancy Tax Department staff who had to be hired earlier than expected. Technical support included internal resources, 3-1-1, website development, and systems configuration and testing. Calls to 3-1-1 were higher than anticipated so additional 3-1-1 staff were needed for 2017. Professional services included IT software vendor costs, modifications to two

existing systems that cost double the original estimate. The city report also noted that other increases to this budget related to the cost of an additional mailout sent to property owners and the addition of targeted advertising. Based on the solution design, other items were also identified — the largest portion this cost was associated with the upgrade of the phone system. First-year operating costs, which amount to $2.6 million, include: • $775,000: tax administration staffing • $940,000: review and compliance staffing • $250,000: notice and advertising • $270,000: IT support and maintenance • $385,000: 3-1-1 call centre and maintenance —Naoibh O’Connor

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Random ballot order to be determined by shaking a box of names Section 79 of Vancouver Charter details low-tech procedure for deciding order of random ballot

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for the 2018 vote, which takes place Oct. 20. This raises the question of exactly how it will happen. Vancouver’s elections office declined an interview with the Courier about specifics, as it hasn’t worked out the exact details yet, but the communications officer pointed to Section 79 of the Vancouver Charter, which

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one at a time; the name on the first paper drawn is to be the first name on the ballot, the name on the second paper is to be the second, and so on until the placing of all candidates’ names on the ballot has been determined. The nomination period for the 2018 election is Sept. 4 to 14. The draw has to happen after the withdrawal and challenge period for candidates is over. This period ends at 4 p.m., seven days after the end of the nomination period. The elections office hasn’t, however, set an of-

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ficial date and time yet — the Chief Election Officer will announce the draw time closer to the fall. Although Vancouver’s 1993 election ballot also listed names based on a draw, the design of the ballot has changed since then. The elections office says it tries to ensure the ballot is clear and understandable for voters. The current ballot style includes the following elements: Names are listed as “LASTNAME, Firstname” with the party affiliation listed to their right Names are aligned to the left of the box Citizens fill in ovals to the left of each name

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Kettle Boffo runs out of steam, but city not throwing in the towel Allen Garr

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On the very day Vancouver city council met last week to consider staff’s voluminous and complex update on its affordable housing strategy, an unexpected bomb was dropped. It managed to blow a staff report, thick enough to give most people a hernia, right off the front page of the local daily newspaper. That bomb came in the form of an early morning Kettle Boffo Project Team update. After seven years, plans for 30 units of affordable housing and a new drop-in centre at Venables and Commercial Drive, all to assist people with mental health concerns, was dead. And to hear them tell it, the city was to blame. Kettle Society executive director Nancy Keough said the timing of their announcement, coming as it did on a day set aside to display the city’s determination to address Vancouver’s housing crisis, was “coincidental.” City manager Sadhu Johnston, who stepped up during a news conference once the questions abruptly shifted from city’s affordability solutions to the Kettle announcement, later told me, “It didn’t feel like that to us.”

The cancellation of the plans for 30 units of affordable housing and a new drop-in centre at Venables and Commercial Drive, all to assist people with mental health concerns, caught many off guard — including the city. PHOTO ARTIST RENDERING

The Kettle and Boffo Properties called their partnership “Kettle Boffo family.” In addition to the 30 housing units and the drop-in centre, Boffo would build a market-priced condo tower at Venables and Commercial Drive and take the profit from that. Kettle actually had originally applied for government money for its project. Its application was made at the same time the province was investing in buying up 14 run-down Vancouver SRO hotels, fixing them up and turning them over to not-for-profits to run.

Kettle, actually, was given one which it now operates. But when it came to the request for money for those 30 units of housing and the drop-in centre, the cupboard was bare. And, by the way, it was actually a city staffer who suggested Kettle get together with Boffo. But in the end, and we have to assume it was the end, the project’s collapse was all about the money —the CAC, or Community Amenity Contribution, to be exact. CACs are applied only to developments where a rezoning is required. And

the money goes to everything from childcare spaces to libraries to fire trucks and community centres. As far as the “Boffo Kettle family” development, Boffo was given a couple of breaks. While the community plan for the area allowed for developments of up to five storeys, council approved a variance that would allow Boffo to build a condo tower 12 storeys high. Then there was the matter of the city selling a piece of land to Boffo without putting it up for public bidding — another benefit. Conventionally, the

amount the city expects to extract from the developer as part of the deal once the plan and the rezoning are approved is equal to 75 per cent of the proﬁt the developer anticipates. And that is where things got stuck. One other thing: community amenities are held in the name of the city. Daniel Boffo said his CAC should be equal to the cost of the Kettle’s new drop-in centre and the 30 units of housing. And he and Kettle wanted those amenities held in the name of the Kettle Society. It was non-negotiable.

Obviously, the city was unprepared to accept either of those terms. To complicate matters further, Boffo also refused to submit his final plans and an application for re-zoning so that the city’s planning department could actually figure out his costs and probable profit. The city’s very rough estimate came out to somewhere between $6 million and $16 million additional to satisfy the CAC. But, remember, that was without final plans being submitted or the re-zoning being approved. In a letter the city manager sent to Boffo on Dec. 18, 2017, Johnston outlines the benefits Boffo and Kettle had been granted. And he makes one more pitch. If Boffo doesn’t like the estimate on the CAC, he can recommend another company on which both Boffo and the city agree. No deal on that either. At the news conference and since then, the city has repeated its pledge not to leave the Kettle Society hanging. Johnston said this week the city land is still available to help the Kettle reach its goal for more housing and a new drop-in centre on that site. And it is a commitment worth holding him to.

VSB approves controversial power station beneath school land Tracy Sherlock

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The Vancouver School board voted Monday night to move forward with the sale of the land underneath Lord Roberts annex in the city’s West End to BC Hydro for a substation. The deal will apparently get the district enough money to build a new school at Coal Harbour, as well as a replacement school at the Lord Roberts annex site. The vote was 6-2, with all trustees except Carrie Bercic and Ken Clement voting in favour. Judy Zaichkowsky was absent and did not vote. Once the new school in Coal Harbour is built, by 2023, Lord Roberts students would move in, the annex would close and construction on the substation would begin. A replacement school would be built in one corner of the site — a corner that is not directly above the substation. This phase of the project would take ﬁve years, after which the Lord Roberts students would

move back to the West End. The proposal is subject to the board passing a bylaw to sell the land and the approval of Minister of Education Rob Fleming. Fleming confirmed in an interview that Coal Harbour elementary has never been in the ministry’s 10-year capital plan and that the government’s first priority for VSB is seismic upgrades. “Coal Harbour would be very nice to have but it is not a seismic project. It could be a fantastic project, given that the vision is to have childcare spaces and affordable family housing constructed by the City of Vancouver with the help of the province,” Fleming said. Trustees in favour of the proposal spoke about the benefit of getting the money to build two new schools downtown. They were convinced by experts who said the electromagnetic field (EMF) levels would not increase in the school once the substation is built and there would be no negative health effects. When it became apparent

BC Hydro is going to create a new substation underneath Lord Roberts annex in exchange for paying for two new schools.

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the proposal would pass, Bercic spoke vehemently, saying it is a provincial responsibility to build schools. “Will we then be asked to sell Kingsgate (mall) to fund Olympic Village (school)?” Bercic asked. “This to me is just the start of us being told we will not get schools unless we sell off pieces of our lands. These are community assets that really should be there for future generations.” At a public meeting last week, people expressed

concern about the health effects of EMF. Lord Nelson annex parent Heather Charlton said she would never send her child to a school built so close to a substation. “I would move. I’m pretty left, but I would even consider private before this,” Charlton said. Leanne Dospital, a parent at the main Lord Nelson elementary, said parents at her school want assurance that the money for the land will stay in the West End community.

“You have to appreciate the risks this community is taking just to have this deal with the devil,” Dospital said in an interview. “No one can say for certain that EMF is not going to impact us — we don’t know.” BC Hydro experts at the meeting said the substation would not increase the EMF at either the school or the park because the station will be underground and the transmission lines will be deeply buried and shielded. Vancouver Coastal Health’s chief medical health officer Patricia Daly’s office did an independent assessment of the proposal last year which found that it could be “accomplished in principle without significant negative public health impact.” The World Health Organization has classified low frequency magnetic fields as a possible carcinogen, but Daly found that to be based on “weak evidence associating long-term exposure to power frequency magnetic fields with childhood leukemia” and said that “the

current body of evidence … does not support a causal relationship for this and other chronic health impacts.” The Coal Harbour school is proposed as a combined development with the city to include both market and subsidized housing and a childcare centre. As far as how much money the VSB might get for the deal, no one is saying. The negotiations are private and the selling price will probably not become public for quite some time. The district’s ﬁve-year capital plan lists the cost of the Coal Harbour elementary at $28 million and a new King George secondary at $44.6 million. Approving this deal cannot have been an easy decision for trustees. I, for one, certainly hope the experts are right when they say that EMF will not increase at the site and that there will be no negative health impacts. Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues. Contact her at tracy. sherlock@gmail.com.

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A Vancouver registered massage therapist and musician is facing four counts of sexual assault, and police are appealing to any other victims to come forward. Const. Doucette said allegations of sexual assault against Bodhi Jones were ﬁrst brought to the attention of ofﬁcers in February 2017. Eric Wredenhagen, registrar and CEO at the College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia, said the college received a report on Feb. 16, 2017 that Jones had been arrested by Vancouver police at the clinic near West Seventh Avenue and Burrard Street where he was practising. The college launched its own investigation the next day. Wredenhagen said Jones voluntarily resigned his massage therapist registration on Feb. 21, 2017. The VPD’s sex crimes unit’s investigation continued over the next year

with several female patients reporting they were allegedly assaulted by Jones during massage treatments between September 2016 and February 2017. On May 29, 2018, Crown counsel approved four charges of sexual assault against Jones. Doucette said detectives are continuing to investigate the incidents and believe there may be more victims who have not yet come forward. “Sex assaults are some of the most challenging investigations, and solving them is a priority for the VPD,” Doucette said. “We are publicly releasing this information with the hope of providing those affected with a direct point of contact at the VPD. We want to hear from anyone who feels they may have been assaulted by Mr. Jones.” Wredenhagen told the Courier the college had not received any complaints against Jones before he was arrested by police in February 2017. He said the college’s investigation into the allegations is still open but on hold while the allegations are tried in court. “We will let the court process conclude and then we will decide what, if any, action to take at that point.” Anyone who may have been assaulted by Jones, or has information they feel could be important for police to know, is asked to contact the VPD sex crimes unit at 604-717-0603 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477. @JessicaEKerr

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Vancouver may be seeing a lot more of legendary L.A. punk rock band NOFX. After comments/jokes the band made on stage last month in Las Vegas, NOFX has, according to the band members, “effectively been banned” in their own country. But is that level of consequence deserved? If you didn’t hear about the incident, this is what happened: At the annual Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival in Vegas, NOFX guitarist Eric Melvin said into a microphone on stage in front of thousands of fans, “I guess you only get shot in Vegas if you’re in a country band.” NOFX bassist “Fat” Mike Burkett responded by saying, “You know, I mean, that sucked, but at least they were country fans and not punk rock fans.” The Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017 left an unimaginable 58 people dead and 851 people injured. In what seems like a never-ending string of mass shootings in the U.S., the Vegas massacre was America’s worst-ever. Twentythree-year-old Jordan McIldoon from Maple Ridge was among those tragically killed. Twenty-one-year-old Sheldon Mack from Victoria was shot and survived. Reaction to NOFX’s onstage comments was swift and damning. Their beer sponsor severed ties, and NOFX was kicked off their own Camp Punk In Drublic Festival. NOFX issued what appeared to be a sincere apology, but it didn’t do any good. Last week, NOFX wrote on Instagram that, against their wishes, all of their shows in the U.S. had been cancelled, and they’ll be playing only in Europe, Mexico and Canada for the foreseeable future. NOFX has a long history with Vancouver, which I’m weirdly entwined with. In the early 1990s, I was a young show promoter, foolishly willing to put on a gig for just about any grunge, garage or punk band touring through town. Many times it would be the band’s ﬁrst-ever show in Vancouver, and NOFX was one of those bands. I remember thinking they had the worst band name ever, and I didn’t really like their music, but they came highly recommended from Bad Religion, another band

whose first Vancouver concert I booked. NOFX’s Vancouver debut was Friday April 5, 1991, at the Cruel Elephant, at 1176 Granville St. About 40 people showed up to the 200 capacity club. I paid NOFX $200. After that Vancouver gig, NOFX struck up a long professional relationship with Cruel Elephant club owner Paul Moes, and NOFX scooped half of his production staff to work in sound and management. Over the course of NOFX’s 35-year-career, the ethnically diverse band (as illustrated in the title of their 1992 album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean) made a name for themselves by essentially never having a filter, whether it be in their lyrics, album titles, artwork, onstage banter, or within the pages their New York Times-bestselling biography NOFX: the Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, by Jeff Alulis, who did a deep dive into the often very damaged backstory of each member. The book’s opening line is a quote from Fat Mike: “The first time I drank piss was on a fire escape overlooking downtown Los Angeles.” Despite the band’s taste, or lack thereof, they’ve never been signed to a major label, and yet have sold more than eight million records worldwide, making them one of the most successful independent bands of all time. Fat Mike has proven himself an excellent business person as owner of the Fat Wreck Chords label, which has withstood the ebbs and flows of the ever-changing music industry for decades. He’s politically motivated, having founded punkvoter.com, actively encouraging oftenapathetic American punks to register to vote. He’s also a proud cross-dresser, wearing dresses and slips everywhere, including on stage, essentially telling his fans, and the world, to wear whatever clothes you want, as long as it feels good. Former Cruel Elephant club owner Paul Moes now works in the film industry, and heard about the recent Vegas incident. “A punk rocker known for saying stupid shit just said something stupid and people get offended? Punk rock was always meant to offend, that was the point. I read about them getting banned and I was shocked.” Yep, stupid shit. Artists like NOFX performing at major downtown music fes-

tivals may look cavalier and relaxed, but you can imagine that playing outdoors in Las Vegas so soon after the October attack could be particularly nerve wracking. Could it be possible NOFX were scared shitless and tried to break the tension, albeit disastrously? Is it possible to translate their callous remarks as a political statement on U.S. gun control, in keeping with the band’s left wing politics? Or is there simply no justification for a string of onstage dialogue delivered that badly? Vancouver’s Charles Demers is an author, comedian, playwright, actor and, in his youth, a NOFX fan. Whenever I find myself crafting material to present in front of a live audience, I often run it by Charlie because, unlike NOFX, he has a very good filter. I asked him what he thought of the NOFX story. “NOFX absolutely made a tasteless joke — but it was also a joke meant for an audience that understood that tastelessness as part of an ironic-nihilistic punk sensibility,” Demers

explained to me. “Properly situated, it becomes gallows humour, albeit in poor form, about living in a chaotic and desperately violent country. But social media has ﬂattened our performances — no one is ever just speaking to ‘their’ crowd anymore. No context can be taken for granted — and, what’s worse, no proportionality attends to the response or consequences.” In other words, in this era of viral outrage, the danger is that the punishment may eclipse the crime (or, in this case, the mistake in judgment). Because of a very bad joke, NOFX has — at present — lost a large piece of their livelihood in their own country. The Las Vegas massacre was an unspeakable tragedy that NOFX chose to speak about. In the band’s own words, “We made a mistake, we apologized, and we gotta suffer the consequences. Maybe it ain’t fair, but whoever said life was fair. #whendidpunkrockbecomesosafe.”

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TransLink announced Monday the establishment of a new NightBus hub at Granville and West Georgia.

ver Business Improvement Association, said in a press release. TransLink’s 10 NightBus routes run seven days a week and pick up passengers throughout the downtown core with service to several points throughout Vancouver, Burnaby and SFU, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, Richmond and the airport, Surrey and UBC. Three of the routes closely follow the same routes as the Expo, Millennium and Canada Line SkyTrain lines with last bus departure times ranging from 3:09 a.m. to 5:09 a.m., de-

pending on the route. All of the routes will stop at Granville and Georgia every 20 to 30 minutes. NightBus stops are indicated by a crescent moon symbol. “Making sure that people have a safe way home at the end of the night is a key part of building a vibrant city,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said. “I’m pleased to see TransLink working to provide new transportation solutions for Vancouver residents and visitors who want a convenient and safe way to get home after enjoying our lively entertainment district.” @JessicaEKerr

Long hours, endless scrutiny and marathon meetings can all be yours come election time on Oct. 20. But before diving head-long into politics, the city is offering a primer on public service for prospective councillors, park board commissioners and school trustees. The ﬁrst of two sessions is being offered at city hall on July 3 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The second meeting is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. until noon on July 14. The meetings will cover the basics around civic life: duties, time commitments and all the other nuts and bolts a politician needs to know. The city’s chief election ofﬁcer, Rosemary Hagiwara, will lead each session and will be joined by staff from both the park board and B.C. School Trustee Association. Attendees are asked to preregister online for the sessions, though doing so isn’t mandatory. The July 3 registration link is at candidate101-july3.eventbrite. com, while the July 14 session is found online at candidate101-

july14.eventbrite.com. Nomination packages will be accepted from Sept. 4 to Sept. 14 in person at city hall. Between now and then, here are some basic tips on what’s needed and what to expect for prospective candidates. • Must be 18 or older as of Oct. 20 • A Canadian citizen • Resident of B.C. for the six months preceding the September nomination period Nomination packages will be available online at vancouver.ca in mid-July, and those completed packages must include: • Signatures from a minimum of 25 qualified electors who endorse the candidate for office • A $100 deposit, which will be returned after campaign financing disclosure statements are filed with Elections B.C. • A declaration swearing that the candidate is eligible to run, will take office if elected, and is aware of all financial requirements required by Elections B.C. Candidates can also submit an optional 150-word biography and photograph to be posted on the city’s website and shared in the printed voter guide. More details are online at vancouver.ca/vote.

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Students from Sir Alexander Mackenzie elementary take part in the Stanley Park Ecology Society’s Nature Ninja’s program. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Nature Ninja program lets kids camp in Stanley Park Sleeping overnight in a tent a highlight, and a ﬁrst, for many students living in the city jkerr@vancourier.com

It’s common knowledge that if you want to go camping within city limits, you’re out of luck. Overnight camping is illegal in Vancouver’s parks and green spaces. There is, however, one exception. The Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES) has been running the Nature Ninjas program, which was previously known as Urban Camping, in the park for more than two decades. The Courier dropped by the camp last week. After a day of exploring the beach, forest and all the flora and fauna in between, as well as a lesson on tying knots and building a shelter, Grade 5 students from Sir Alexander Mackenzie elementary return to Mystery Meadows to set up camp for the night. The area, surrounded by trees and salmon berry bushes, is buzzing with activity as the kids put up their tents. For 13 of the 23 students, this is their first time camping. “I think it’s been a good experience,” says Logan Hagel-Noel, 10, who is one of the more experienced campers in the group, before going back to work helping his group put up their tent. When asked what his reaction was when he found out that the class would be going on a camping trip, Lloyd Suela, 11, mimics a shocked/ excited face before saying, “I was extremely excited.” Another first-timer, Ali States, 10, says he was also “extremely excited.” His favourite part? “Going to the beach and finding

all the animals.” The experience is also a hit with Jaime Wiley, 11, Harleen Nijjar, 10, and Alysa Ferrer, 11. All three agree that the best part has been learning to build the shelters and putting up the tents. After, the class is off to another area of the park to learn how to set up a camp stove and cook dinner. Divided into groups, the students boil water to cook spaghetti, chop vegetables for the sauce, make salad, cut buns and clean up the dishes from a snack earlier in the day. The Nature Ninjas program — run by SPES, the Vancouver School Board and the Vancouver Park Board — organizes two overnight camping trips a week, one class at a time, from April until the end of June and sees about 18 to 20 classes a year. The classes all range from Grade 4 to 7. When the program first started, it was aimed solely at inner city schools in Vancouver, but it’s now open to any school in the Lower Mainland. However, inner city schools still get priority. “We do an early call out to inner city schools and then we do a broader call out to anyone that’s on our mailing list for when registration is open and at that point it’s just first come, first served,” says Dylan Rawlyk, school program manager with SPES.

Ninja oath

Standing in the middle of Mystery Meadows as her students excitedly put up their tents, teacher Jennifer Young says she jumped at the chance to sign up her class. “I love ﬁeldtrips… It’s

always been my thing. I’m really confident in children’s ability to handle themselves outside of a classroom. I think as long as you have guidelines and structure, they respond really, really well,” she says. “I knew it would be fantastic. I had done programs with the ecology society before, like day programs, so I knew that that would be fantastic but I had no idea how fantastic. You wouldn’t believe what we’ve done today,” Young adds. The class started the day at 9 a.m. with environmental educator Chandehl Morgan. The students gathered in the forest and took the Nature Ninjas oath before learning about the different ecosystems in the park. “She’s done a whole outdoor classroom setting and introduced the concept of respect for the forest and each other and what it means to be a Nature Ninja — what it means to look after the park and each other,” Young says. Morgan led the class through the forest, stopping to have the children observe what’s going on around them. “She made all the bird calls and bird sounds and taught us how to tell them all apart,” Young says. After their foray into the forest, the class headed to the beach near Lumberman’s Arch to learn about the intertidal zone and all its inhabitants. Rawlyk says a highlight of this part of the day is usually when the students get to build a “crabitat” (crab habitat). “They try to figure out what are the best things for crabs, create that environment, and find out which crabs are safe

to pick up,” he says. That turns out to be the male crabs. The females are currently carrying their eggs and need to be left alone. The males are fair game though and the students get to pick one lucky crustacean to try out their habitat. Dad Thomas Wang is the lone parent chaperone on the trip; in addition to the teacher, there are several staff members on hand as well as a security guard for the night. Wang was recruited to help with the trip back in November and took the day off work to help out his daughter’s class. “I think it’s really good for them to see nature because I feel like a lot of kids nowadays, it’s easy to get stuck just being indoors and stuck on [electronic] devices,” he says. “I think it’s really good for them to see nature and get in touch with it and spend more time outdoors.” Rawlyk says on average usually about half the students have never camped before. “It’s a real transformation because it can be scary,” he says. “There’s a lot of fear that can come at the beginning, but I find that what happens most out of this is just social cohesion and confidence building. There’s excitement and just confidence, they feel comfortable exploring the areas around them in the outdoors and that’s a pretty special thing” After dinner has been eaten and cleaned up and dusk falls over the park, the class will head out on a night hike around Beaver Lake, taking a look at how the ecosystems in the park change at nighttime —

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With the Canada Day holiday comes a long weekend for most of us. This year, July 1 falls on a Sunday so Monday, July 2 is when many businesses take the day off. Wondering just how much you can get done on that bonus Monday after spending your Sunday enjoying Vancouver’s many Canada Day celebrations? Here’s what is open and closed for Canada Day in Vancouver. • Canada Post will not deliver on July 2; however, post ofﬁces operated by the private sector will be open according to the hours of service of the host business. • All banks will be closed on July 2. • Vancouver Public Library branches will be closed on July 2; however, those branches that usually operate on Sundays will remain open on July 1. The Carnegie branch will not close for the holiday on July 2. • TransLink will operate on a Sunday/holiday schedule on July 1. However, many routes will have extra/ extended service in the evenings to accommodate latenight events. On July 2 they will run on a Sunday/holiday schedule. West Coast Express will not operate on July 2 and Access Transit

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Customer Care, Compass Customer Service Centre and Lost Property Ofﬁce will all be closed July 2. See all Canada Day details at translink.bc.ca. • Vancouver City Hall will be closed July 2. • City of Vancouver community centre, ﬁtness centres, and pool closures vary by location; a full list of each facility’s holiday hours is at Vancouver.ca. • City of Vancouver golf courses (Fraserview, Langara, McCleery) will be open both days, dawn to dusk. • Most major grocery stores will be open on both days, though some locations may operate reduced

hours. Costco will be open on July 1; however, their locations will all be closed in B.C. on July 2. • We might not be used to this yet, but many BC Liquor Store locations will be open on Canada Day and on the Monday holiday. Use their store locator at bcliquorstores.com to conﬁrm the hours of the store nearest you. Similarly, private liquor stores may be open one or both days. • Most malls and shopping centres will be open both days. Paciﬁc Centre will be open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on July 1 and regular hours (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.) on July 2.

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And whether you plan to spend your Canada Day watching festive ﬁreworks at Canada Place or sobbing into your popcorn at the Rio Theatre watching The Tragically Hip: Long Time Running, there are plenty of options when it comes to celebrating our great nation. All of the events below take place July 1. CANADA PLACE Despite the fact the annual Canada Day Parade has been cancelled, there’s still plenty to do at Canada Place July 1. GRANVILLE ISLAND

Canada Day at Canada Place has been the largest event of its kind outside of Ottawa for more than 30 years — and still is. Event highlights include music and entertainment, a citizen ceremony, Youth Zone, Picnic Plaza and, of course, ﬁreworks. More info at canadaplace.ca. GRANVILLE ISLAND 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. So. Much. To. Do. From roving entertainers, DIY crafts, market, music, food, a musical instrument playground, bike decorating workshop and more, Granville Island is a great choice for Canada Day. The annual parade starts at

1:30 p.m. Visit granvilleisland. com/canada-day. THE TRAGICALLY HIP: LONG TIME RUNNING Rio Theatre Doors 5:30 p.m. Advance tickets $10 at riotheatre.ca. $12 at the door The Rio Theatre is tipping its hat to “Canada’s Band” with a screening of the Tragically Hip documentary Long Time Running, which chronicles the now-legendary 2016 tour that captured the hearts of the nation. The Hip’s lead singer Gord Downie used the tour to say goodbye to legions of fans across the country before his death from brain cancer last October. Minors are welcome in the balcony. FITNESS CLASSES FOR A CAUSE McArthurGlen Designer Outlet McArthurGlen has partnered with the Richmond Olympic Oval for the ﬁrst time to offer a marathon of six outdoor ﬁtness classes in the centre’s piazza, rotating

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through the oval’s latest cycling and yoga offerings. To help with the cool-down for the day, an exclusive VIP lounge will allow attendees to relax and enjoy complimentary refreshments, hand massages, snacks and more. A $15 ticket, per class, includes ﬁtness gear, a sevenday pass to the Richmond Oval, access to the VIP lounge and a swag bag full of goodies worth $150 with partial proceeds going to KidSport Richmond. In addition to the ﬁtness classes, McArthurGlen will also host free kid-friendly sports, a scavenger hunt throughout the centre and live music

from the local jazz band The Tim Sars Quintet. Visit mcarthurglen.com. CANADA DAY DRUMMING 2018 Creekside Park 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The second annual Canada Day Drumming Celebration features simultaneous drumming across nine Canadian cities. The Legacy 150 Celebrations Society is once again attempting to break the Guinness World Record for “Most Nationalities in a Drum Circle” category at Creekside Park at 1455 Quebec St. July 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. People of all ages are invited

to participate, or serve as spectators, and enjoy a kids’ area, food trucks and more. Interested drummers with a foreign passport may sign up to join the circle at canada150drumming.com. CANNABIS DAY Join Vancouver’s marijuana community to celebrate Canada and Cannabis at Thornton Park at Paciﬁc Central Station, 1166 Main St. Check out the cannabis farmers market, hear activist speakers and enjoy live music and “free weed” — just the messenger. Visit Cannabis Day in Vancouver on Facebook.

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SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM Sure you can drink beer at your Canada Day barbecue — or even one of those low-calorie vodka drinks in a can that are popping up everywhere — but if you really want to impress the gang, whip up one of these cocktail recipes compliments of three city hotspots.

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Market by Jean-Georges: Shangri-La Hotel INGREDIENTS 3.5 oz Mionetto Sparkling or Henri Gaillard Rosé 1 oz olive-washed Cynar

OLIVE-WASHED CYNAR

200g large green Provence olives 5gs fresh thyme Zest of half a lemon 1 bottle Cynar METHOD Add all to a vacuum bag, seal, give the olives a squeeze to release ﬂavour and place in a sous vide water bath overnight or for eight hours at 55 Fahrenheit, strain through a coffee ﬁlter, bottle and refrigerate. Combine Mionetto Sparkling or Henri Gaillard Rosé with olive-washed Cynar. Pour into white wine glass over a sphere ice cube. Garnish with two Provence green olives on a pick.

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alcohol, ﬂavour enhancers (Worcestershire and Tabasco), then top with Walter Caesar mix. Garnish with pickled green beans and asparagus or kick it up a notch with candied bacon.

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PACIFIC BOULEVARD Homer Street Café and Bar: Canada Day featured cocktail INGREDIENTS 1.5 oz Forty Creek Whisky

.75 oz Campari This Canada Day-worthy .75 oz Cinzano Orancio recipe uses vodka from .5 oz Cynar Vancouver-based Sons of Vancouver and gin from METHOD Oliver-based Noteworthy Gin. Mix all the ingredients into a mixing glass. INGREDIENTS .5 oz Sons of Vancouver Vodka .5 oz Noteworthy Gin 4 oz Walter Craft Caesar Mix .25 oz lime juice Dash each of Worcestershire and Tabasco

Add ice and stir for three seconds. Strain into a rocks glass. Add ice. Spray lemon oil over the cocktail and rub the side of the glass with the peel.

METHOD

Garnish with a wide lemon peel.

Rim glass with Char Blue premium spice blend, ﬁll Mason jar with ice, add

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Scrumptious s’mores

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SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM Who doesn’t love a good s’more when you’re camping in the great outdoors. But did you know they’re just as easy to make at home? And watch out marshmallows, you’ve got some competition with a recipe that replaces your gooey goodness with rich, melted brie cheese.

CAMPFIRE SUGAR CONE S’MORES 1 cup miniature marshmallows

INGREDIENTS

24 Graham teddy bear cookies

12 marshmallows

½ cup chocolate chips

12 squares of milk chocolate

Mix marshmallows, chocolate chips and cookies together in a bowl. Stuff each cone to the top with marshmallow mixture.

12 chocolate Oreo cookies

METHOD Preheat the broiler Twist the tops off the cookies and arrange the bottom halves cream-side up on a baking sheet.

PEACH, BRIE AND DARK CHOCOLATE S’MORES INGREDIENTS 1 ripe peach Squares of dark chocolate, about two ounces 4 Graham crackers

Remove from heat and let the cones cool down enough to hold upright before unwrapping.

S’MOREOS

METHOD

S’MOREOS

Place on a barbecue on medium heat and close the lid for ﬁve to eight minutes, turning occasionally.

INGREDIENTS

8 sugar cones

CAMPFIRE SUGAR CONE S’MORES

Wrap each cone with a double layer of tin foil to completely seal the cone and ﬁlling.

4 oz brie cheese METHOD Preheat the broiler.

Break Graham crackers into squares and lay them out on a baking sheet. Top one half with chocolate and top with brie. Place thinly sliced peaches on the other half. Broil for 30 to 45 seconds. Sandwich the pieces together and enjoy.

PEACH, BRIE AND DARK CHOCOLATE S’MORES

Put a piece of chocolate on the cream ﬁlling and then top with a marshmallow. Pull up a chair and watch closely while you broil the marshmallows to your liking — golden brown is a good start. Place the remaining cookie tops on the marshmallows and enjoy.

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Show your national pride with these Canuck-inspired gifts SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM Celebrate Canada Day all year long with these very Canadian-themed gifts. I mean, who wouldn’t be overjoyed to receive a Justin Trudeau-scented candle? On that note: JUSTIN TRUDEAUSCENTED CANDLE You might imagine Justin Trudeau smells like a mix of bare-chested sweat after an afternoon of spelunking and baby powder from canoodling infants, but according to candle makers JD and Kate, his aroma is more in the vein of warm chai tea

mingled with a hint of maple syrup. Visit jdandkateindustries.com. STARBUCKS “BEEN THERE” COLLECTION OF MUGS Just in time for Canada Day — and your summer travels — Starbucks Canada has introduced a new collection of mugs that showcase our majestic country and pay tribute to our beautiful provinces and vibrant cities. The collection will be represented locally in stores from coast to

the annual July 1 barbecue than the parent of a toddler belting out “Fifty Mission Cap” or “N “Nautical Disaster” over and over again. Visit thehip.com.

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From Meatballs to Mordecai Richler, Canadian ﬁlms run the gamut SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

There’s a lot going on during the Canada Day long weekend but, once the sun has gone down and the picnic basket is unpacked, it’s a great time to unwind with one of these Canadiana classics. Depending on your preference or mood, we’ve divided this list into two parts — Canadian classics and Canadian classics: Couch Locked edition.

CANADIAN CLASSICS

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Richard Dreyfuss, this 1974 ﬁlm is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler. The story follows the life of Duddy Kravitz, a poor Jewish boy raised in Montreal, Quebec who is obsessed with power and money.

My American Cousin

My American Cousin Released in 1985, this comedy/drama was written and directed by Sandy Wilson who based it on her own childhood. The ﬁlm stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen growing up in rural Penticton, B.C. in the late 1950s. Sandy wants to be treated like an adult and when her older American cousin Butch Walker (John Wildman) comes for a visit, the two form an unlikely bond over rock music.

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Double Happiness In this 1994 drama, directed by Mina Shum and coproduced by the National Film Board of Canada, Sandra Oh plays Jade Li, an actress struggling to assert her independence from the expectations of her traditional Chinese Canadian family. Hard Core Logo This 1996 mockumentary, directed by Bruce McDonald, follows the reunion of ﬁctional Vancouver punk band Hard Core

Logo. When the band gets back together ostensibly for an anti-gun beneﬁt, they begin the tour in Vancouver and travel thousands of kilometres east along the Trans-Canada Highway to Winnipeg and then northwest along the Yellowhead Highway to Edmonton. On the way the band members begin to reveal dark secrets. Rumble

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World This documentary not only showcases the role of Native Americans in popular music history, but also includes scenes with real musicians — both dead and alive — including Steven Tyler, Iggy Pop, Link Wray, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jesse Ed Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Slash and more. And while many artists and musical forms played a role in the creation of rock music, it’s thought by many that no single piece of music was more inﬂuential than the 1958 instrumental “Rumble” by American Indian rock guitarist and singer/ songwriter Link Wray.

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CANADIAN CLASSICS: COUCH LOCKED EDITION Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy This 1996 movie, written by and starring Canadian comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, follows the ﬁctional tale of a pharmaceutical scientist who creates a pill that makes people relive their happiest memory, which might sound good on paper, but unfortunately has some adverse side effects. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Meatballs Directed by Ivan Reitman, this 1979 comedy stars Bill Murray as the head counsellor at a run-down summer camp. Murray’s character Tripper Harrison becomes the unlikely friend to a lonely young boy and shenanigans ensue. TRIVIA TIP: Meatballs was Murray’s ﬁrst leading role in a movie and the red shorts and colourful Hawaiian shirts he wore were from his own wardrobe.

SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie, portrayed by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. The plot follows two unemployed brothers who place a live mouse in a beer bottle in an attempt to blackmail the

local beer store into giving them free Elsinore beer, but are told to take the matter up with management. When the brothers are given jobs on the bottling line inspecting bottles for mice, they uncover a secret plot to take

Strange Brew

Strange Brew Also known as The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie, is a 1983 comedy starring the popular

over the world by placing a mind-control drug in Elsinore beer.

badly beats one of the boys, they come up with a plan to seek revenge.

Porky’s Porky’s is a 1981 Canadian-American sex romp written and directed by Bob Clark about a group of Florida high school students who plan on losing their virginity by hiring prostitutes at Porky’s, a nightclub out in the Everglades. When Porky takes their money, humiliates the kids by dumping them in the swamp and eventually

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie Also known as Trailer Park Boys: The Big Dirty, this 2006 crime/comedy ﬁlm is based on the TV series of the same name. The ﬁlm follows characters Ricky, Julian and Bubbles creating a plan for the “Big Dirty,” one last crime that will enable them to retire from their criminal lives.

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Arts & Entertainment

Rifﬁng on arts education with Emily Carr university’s new president Jazz vocalist and academic, Gillian Siddall embraces lessons of improv Martha Perkins

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When a student arrives at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, they might think the next few years will be all about their art. And while they will indeed graduate with enhanced skills in their chosen ﬁeld, there’s another type of learning that has been going on in their classrooms and studios. Their teachers have urged them to be critical thinkers, to explore ideas and push boundaries. Whether they end up with a career in the arts or explore other opportunities, it’s that ability to challenge themselves that excites the university’s new president and vicechancellor. Asked to describe an ideal graduate, Gillian Siddall says “I would want them to have developed critical thinking skills — that they’ve learnt how to identify problems and ask the right questions to solve the problems.”

Not only has this approach made Emily Carr grads so desirable among future employers across a diverse range of ﬁelds, but the strong communication skills that complement critical thinking help students “make sense of the complexities of the world in which we live.” Siddall is no stranger to those complexities. An accomplished jazz vocalist who helped to establish the Guelph (Ontario) Jazz Festival in the 1990s, her music had to play a secondary role as her academic career advanced. Luckily, when she joined Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, the chair of the department of English was a jazz guitarist and they performed at various gigs. (She has an upcoming album with Newfoundland pianist Bill Brennan.) She also made sure that her love of music infused her own studies; her most recent publication is Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity. It examines

An accomplished jazz vocalist, Gillian Siddall’s passion for the arts and academics come together as new president of Vancouver’s Emily Carr University. PHOTO EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY AND DESIGN

how subjectivity is formed and expressed through the act of improve, a university press release says. Improv is also part of her leadership approach.

“Good improvisation requires listening well to the others with whom you’re making music, or whatever it is you’re doing, and working together

to make something sound amazing,” she says in her university proﬁle. “So it’s not one person leading; it’s really people working together.”

Art and academics merged when she left Lakehead University after 18 years, including six years as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and joined the OCAD University (formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design.) Her ﬁrst assignment was as interim provost, but she later became provost and vice-president, academic. Today, “to be in a creative space like Emily Carr is a great joy and it brings the creative side of my life together with the professional side,” she told the Courier. “I’m excited. It has a fabulous faculty and staff and students are the heartbeat of the university.” She’s also pleased to be part of a culture that shares many of her values, especially those about decolonization, transdisciplinary learning and research. “I know I will be thrilled by everything I learn from the people here,” she says of her goals for her time at Emily Carr. “It will be amazing.”

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Vancouver Matters How to Claim Your Home Owner Grant in 2018 Home owner grants and property taxes are due July 4, 2018. Starting this year, there is no mail-in option to claim your home owner grant.

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On their web series, Brynn Peebles and Brianna Wiens strive to make connections in a city where everything costs too much and everyone has their guard up.

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Web series Girls vs The City lovingly skewers Vancouver clichés Expensive real estate, bike lanes, relationships mined for laughs

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Vancouver doesn’t usually get the chance to play herself on television; she’s more likely to stand in for Seattle, New York, or made-for-the-CW locales on the small screen than she is to appear as herself, bike lanes and idiosyncrasies and all. The web series sphere is where Vancouver truly gets the chance to shine as the gloriously complicated character she is. She’s one of the title characters in the comedy web series Girls vs. The City, the second season of which hit the ’net last week. The “girls” of Girls vs. The City are similarly complicated characters named Brynn and Brianna, played by series co-creators Brynn Peebles and Brianna Wiens. Like their exaggerated on-screen counterparts, Peebles and Wiens are

longtime BFFs engaged in a love-hate relationship with this city (although it’s mostly love at this point). The ﬁctional Brynn and Brianna are BFFs striving to make connections in a city where everything costs too much and everyone has their guard up, says Peebles in a recent phone interview with the Courier and Wiens. “We lovingly make fun of Vancouver,” says Peebles. Comedy, she goes on to say, is a survival strategy, “because there’s so much that’s absurd about living in Vancouver, and people are so in their bubbles.” The web series is a spinoff of Girl on Girl Humor, a YouTube channel they started six years ago and populated with blistering improv comedy videos. Season one of Girls vs. The City followed the women as they rebuilt their lives after one B lost her relationship and the other lost her home

(which we admit doesn’t sound too funny, but B & B spin their characters’ pain into comedy gold). Peebles describes season two as “us realizing we’re out of place and trying to find where we fit in, and realizing how much more together everyone else has their lives, and how we’re these almost 30-something jobless, friendless, husbandless, clueless, notquite millennials.” Making new friends is the fictional duo’s raison d’être. In season two, they take their search for friends to a craft brewery (where douche-bros toss back pints while identifying notes of straw wicker and mushroom soup), to a running club (after observing that everyone in Vancouver works out because they’re broke and in desperate need of mood-altering endorphins), to a tabletop roleplaying game, and into the indie art scene (which, we

discover, has a surprisingly dark underbelly). “I think our job as comedians is to bring everybody out of it for a second and go, ‘Hey, what we’re all doing is pretty stupid and funny,’” says Wiens. Wiens and Peebles recently attended the tony Banff World Media Festival, where they pitched Girls vs. The City to TV industry stakeholders. Vancouver is an unending source of inspiration, says Wiens. “The beautiful thing about this show is there’s always going to be material in the city,” she says. “Vancouver is full of funny people, and there’s not that much comedy here in terms of comedy television series, so we want all the funny people on our show.” Stream both seasons of Girls vs. The City at youtube.com/user/ GirlonGirlHumor/

Six web series that celebrate — or skewer — Vancouver When it comes to mining Vancouver clichés for web series gold, Girls vs. The City isn’t alone. Here are six other web series that successfully explore some aspect of what it means to live, work, play and fail in Metro Vancouver:

The Drive

A makeshift family of roommates wrestles with all manner of heartache and identity issues in a house just off of

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Dangers of Online Dating

A sexual health nurse at a West End clinic, with a fear of casual sex consequences, catapults into the world of online dating after a year of sexual abstinence.

Sunnyhearts Community Centre

Writer and star Sonja Bennett (Preggoland) stars as the new

program manager of a fictional — and dysfunctional — Vancouver community centre.

BC Was Awesome

Bob Kronbauer — the founder of Vancouver Is Awesome — casts his signature awesome-cam on quirky characters and curiosities from our province’s past.

Inconceivable

A lesbian and a straight dude

sleep together after getting drunk at a Vancouver web series event, and wind up pregnant. Based on a true story; winner of the 2018 Leo Award for Best Web Series.

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Public Hearing: July 10, 2018

Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 3655 West 3rd Avenue (Fraser-Strauss House) To designate the exterior of the existing building at 3655 West 3rd Avenue (Fraser Strauss House), which is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, as protected heritage property. 2. 8444-8480 Oak Street To rezone 8444-8480 Oak Street from RT-2 (Two-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building containing a total of 40 market residential units. A height of 21.3 metres (70 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.50 are proposed. 3. 2109 West 35th Avenue To rezone 2109 West 35th Avenue from RS-5 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a three-storey residential building containing a total of 12 for-profit affordable rental units. A height of 11.09 metres (36.38 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 0.86 are proposed. 4. 3560-3570 Hull Street and 2070-2090 East 20th Avenue To rezone 3560-3570 Hull Street and 2070-2090 East 20th Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of 3.5-storey townhouses and a four-storey apartment building, along with the retention, relocation, designation and protection of a heritage home at 2088 East 20th Avenue, for a combined total of 69 secured market rental housing units. A maximum height of 12.8 metres (42 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.58 are proposed. 5. 777 Pacific Boulevard – Northeast False Creek Sub-area 10C To rezone a portion of 777 Pacific Boulevard (1 Robson Street) – Northeast False Creek Sub-area 10C from BCPED (BC Place/Expo District) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a mixed-use building with commercial and residential uses. The proposal is for a maximum floor area of 37,161 square metres (400,000 square feet) and a maximum building height of up to 121.9 metres (400 feet). The application is being considered under the Northeast False Creek Plan. 6. 750-772 Pacific Boulevard (Plaza of Nations) – Northeast False Creek Sub-area 6B To amend the existing CD-1 (349) (Comprehensive Development) District, for 750-772 Pacific Boulevard (Plaza of Nations) – Northeast False Creek Sub-area 6B to permit a mixed-use development with commercial, residential, community and civic uses. A maximum floor area of 181,925 square metres (1,955,000 square feet) and a maximum building height of 89.9 metres (295 feet) are proposed. The application is being considered under the Northeast False Creek Plan.

Public Hearing: July 17, 2018

Tuesday, July 17, 2018, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Miscellaneous Amendments - Zoning and Development By-law, Various CD-1 By-laws, and Noise Control, Parking and Sign By-laws (see A on map) To make amendments to CD-1 (696) By-law for 500-650 West 57th Avenue (Pearson Dogwood), CD-1 (693) By-law for 809 West 23rd Avenue, CD-1 (679) By-law for 725-747 Southeast Marine Drive, and CD-1 (562) By-law for 508 Helmcken Street; to repeal

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superseded CD-1 (21) and CD-1 (598) By-laws; to amend various CD-1 By-laws to include ‘Grocery Store with Liquor Store’ use; and to amend the Sign, Noise Control, and Parking By-laws. The amendments would achieve the intent of the initial rezoning approvals and correct inadvertent errors. 2. Development and Building Regulatory Review - Minor Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law, the Downtown Official Development Plan, and Various Land Use and Development Policies and Guidelines (see B on map) To make various amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law, the Downtown Official Development Plan, and various land use and development guidelines and policies to simplify and update the regulations and streamline permit review processes. 3. 605-695 Southeast Marine Drive (see C on map) To amend CD-1 (99) (Comprehensive Development) District for 605-695 Southeast Marine Drive to add ‘Liquor Store’ as an allowable use to enable temporary relocation of an existing liquor store located at 725-747 Southeast Marine Drive. 4. 5809-5811 Main Street (198 Ontario Place) (see D on map) To rezone 5809-5811 Main Street (198 Ontario Place) from RT-2 (Two-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 3.5-storey residential building with 12 co-housing units including three affordable homeownership units. A height of 14.1 metres (46 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.62 are proposed. 5. 146-186 West 41st Avenue and 5726 Columbia Street (see E on map) To rezone 146-186 West 41st Avenue and 5726 Columbia Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a townhouse development that includes two four-storey buildings and four two-storey buildings, containing a total of 40 market residential units. A maximum height of 15.1 metres (49.4 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.88 are proposed. 6. 3123-3129 West Broadway (Hollywood Theatre) (see F on map) To designate the exterior and certain elements of the interior of the existing building at 3123 West Broadway (Hollywood Theatre) as protected heritage property, to secure the rehabilitation and long-term preservation of the heritage building, and to vary the Zoning and Development By-law to permit a new six-storey mixed-use building under the existing C-2C (Commercial) District.

Public Hearing: July 18, 2018

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law - Laneway Home Regulations (see i on map) To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to make it easier and more cost effective to build laneway houses and to improve livability of laneway houses. Key amendments include introducing an outright review process, changing the method of measuring height, increasing maximum allowable heights, allowing greater design flexibility on the second floor, introducing minimum room size requirements, and providing more flexibility for siting one-storey laneway houses. 2. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law and Building By-law - Accessible Path of Travel Policy Review (see ii on map) To amend the Zoning and Development By-law and the Vancouver Building By-law (VBBL) to mandate an accessible path of travel for specified low-density housing types, and to regain living space required to meet 2014 VBBL adaptable housing requirements in one- and two-family dwellings (on sites with a frontage of 10.06 metres or less).

3. 988 West 64th Avenue and 8030-8130 Oak Street (see iii on map) To rezone 988 West 64th Avenue and 8030-8130 Oak Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of three six-storey residential buildings containing a total of 130 market residential units. A maximum height of 21.8 metres (71.6 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.50 are proposed. 4. 4175 West 29th Avenue (St. George’s Senior School) (see iv on map) To rezone 4175 West 29th Avenue (St. George’s Senior School) from RS-5 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the redevelopment of the St. George’s Senior School campus, increase the height to 18.9 metres (62 feet), allow for accessory staff and student housing, and introduce a maximum student enrolment. 5. 2133 Nanton Avenue and 4189 Yew Street (Arbutus Centre) (see v on map) To amend CD-1 (642) (Comprehensive Development) District for 2133 Nanton Avenue and 4189 Yew Street (Arbutus Centre) to increase the allowable floor area by 8,016 square metres (86,283 square feet) to a site-wide maximum of 75,081 square metres (808,165 square feet) for all uses combined, with a maximum of 65,016 square metres (699,826 square feet) for residential uses and a minimum of 10,065 square metres (108,338 square feet) of non-dwelling uses; and to increase the maximum building height from 57 metres (187 feet) to 60 metres (197 feet) for Block C and from 57 metres (187 feet) to 72 metres (236 feet) for Block D. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearings. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on June 29 for the July 10 Public Hearing, and July 6 for the July 17 and July 18 Public Hearings until 5 pm on the day of the respective Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details. Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting June 29 for the July 10 Public Hearing and July 6 for the July 17 and July 18 Public Hearings at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

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Arts & Entertainment KUDOS AND KVETCHES

Some totally superﬁcial assessments of city’s mayoral candidates The upcoming municipal election is several months away (Oct. 20), but it’s already attracted a hefty raft of candidates who have ﬂoated into our social media streams, dinner conversations and sweaty dreams. And, to be honest, we’re already exhausted. So without much effort or emotional investment, here are our initial thoughts on these predominantly politically inexperienced mayoral hopefuls.

hands. “Hey what did you do on the weekend?” “Oh, Ian came over and helped me build a shed. Ian has all the tools. All of them…wink, wink, nudge, nudge.”

Patrick Condon, COPE

Ken Sim, Non-Partisan Association

Ian Campbell, Vision Vancouver

Vancouver has already had three mayors named Campbell, so why not a fourth? Plus, people named Ian sound like they’re good with their

as Sim is, would it kill him to smile once in a while?

As one of our colleagues ably demonstrated, Ken Sim easily morphs into the catchphrase “Sim City,” which is helpful from a marketing perspective. But we’d hazard a guess that anyone who still plays Sim City on their computer probably thinks Hootie and the Blowﬁsh are still part of the cultural zeitgeist. It’s not like they’re Bootsauce, or anything. Plus, as rakishly handsome

We’re sure Condon is a smart dude, and he even reminded us that COPE was still a party, but the desktop publishing fan has to ditch the black T-shirt under a blazer look. And what’s with hanging a pair of glasses off of said shirt during press conferences? For what it’s worth, he’s got the dad look down pat. And Vancouver has a long history of electing dads.

Hector Bremner, political party TBA

while back, when Gregor Robertson announced he wasn’t going to run again for mayor, we wrote an in-depth thinkpiece titled “It’s time to face facts: Vancouver will never have a mayor as attractive as Gregor Robertson.” But what about Hector “the defector” Bremner, you’re probably asking, as you stare longingly at Bremner’s coifed Mad Menesque hair, stylish glasses and impeccable sense of fashion. Well, he’s not going to win, so we’re standing by our claim.

Style has never been Bremner’s enemy. His old party the NPA? That’s another matter. A

David Chen, ProVancouver

The only thing we know about Chen is that he reminds us of a guidance

counsellor we had in high school who told us social work was a noble profession. The photo on Chen’s website is also a little creepy, like he’s reading our mind and would do some human centipede-like experiments on us if our car ever broke down and we knocked on his door for assistance. But he’s probably a perfectly nice guy.

names. And alliteration. Also a big fan of bangs and scarves. Come to think of it, Bangs and Scarves would be a great name for a band.

Kennedy Stewart, Independent

As far as names go, “Kennedy Stewart” sounds like it was made for political ofﬁce. “Ken” Stewart on the other hand sounds like the name of a softball coach who would bootleg for you (i.e. “Sweet, Coach Ken just scored us a case of Lucky”). Like Patrick Condon, Stewart rocks the dad look but, unlike Condon, he also understands the power of a good tie.

Shauna Sylvester, Independent

Big fan of last names that sound like ﬁrst

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She’s got bangs and she’s been known to rock a scarf from time to time but, unlike Shauna Sylvester, Wai Young has a very headline- and pun-friendly name, which we’re always stoked about. “No Wai,” “Every which Wai but loose,” “Forever Young,” “Young at heart,” “How much do you Wai?” and for all you Billy Joel aﬁcionados “You Wai be right, you Wai be crazy.” @KudosKvetches

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Small Stage summer series brings dancing to the streets And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week

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Small Stage Summer Dance Series

This summer Small Stage is taking dance to the streets of Vancouver as they pursue new ways to connect the city with live dancing. Things kick off July 1 on Robson Street with a packed schedule of exciting performances. The series continues throughout July at various locations, where you’ll find outdoor dance pieces performed by local dancers, uniquely choreographed to a different element each week, featuring a range of styles combining the classical arts with a modern, urban twist. The full July schedule is available online. July 1, 12:30 to 3:45 p.m. Robson Street (the alley between CB2 and Shenanigans) smallstage.ca

Chinatown Cocktail Crawl

Catch a few sips showcasing what Chinatown’s movers and shakers are up to on this fun DIY cocktail tour of the everchanging neighbourhood. Participants receive one cocktail and a small appetizer at each of the three crawl stops on the tour (The Keefer Bar, Black Lodge, Sai Woo), and are entitled to a discount if they choose to stick around and order more. June 28, 5:30 to 8 p.m. The Keefer Bar, Black Lodge, Sai Woo vangourmetclub.com

Left: Small Stage is taking dance to the streets on July 1. Centre: Sai Woo is one of three stops on the Chinatown Cocktail Crawl. Right: Scottish indie darling Belle and Sebastian play two nights at the Vogue July 28 and 29.

RibFest at Mamie Taylor’s

The ninth annual Canada Day RibFest comes to Mamie Taylor’s. It features a cook-off competition between chefs and master grillers from some of the city’s top restaurants meeting over the flames in Chinatown. Only 100 judging tickets at $10 per person will be made available to members of the public, who will help choose the winning chef/restaurant. Tickets available onsite at Mamie Taylor’s on Canada Day at 2 p.m., on a first-comefirst-served basis. July 1, 2 p.m. Mamie Taylor’s, 251 East Georgia St. mamietaylors.ca

Belle and Sebastian at the Vogue

The Scottish indie rock band hits Vancouver to support their latest EP trilogy release How To Solve Our Human Problems. They’ll bring their uniquely poetic and sometimes moody sound to the Vogue Theatre for a two-night run. June 28 and 29, doors at 8 p.m. Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St. voguetheatre.com/events/ belle-and-sebastian

outdoors at the beautiful Malkin Bowl. For 2018, the season will feature Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and 42nd Street on alternating nights. Things get underway this summer with previews July 4 and 5; the full season gets going July 9. July 4 to Aug. 18. Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park, 610 Pipeline Rd. | tuts.ca For more events, go to

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Clockwise from top left: Erected in 2009, this shrine to Michael Jackson is still going strong, despite two warring fan groups whose public scuffles threatened the memorial’s existence a few years ago. Stylish Munich Airport was ranked best airport in Europe and number four in the world by a survey of 14 million passengers worldwide. Munich’s BMW Museum houses history and automobile eye-candy in space-age 1973 architecture. Surfers ride a human-made standing-wave at the Eisbach (German for ice brook).

Straight-laced Munich full of offbeat charms Surﬁng, airport breweries and pop star memorials bring unexpected quirk to Bavarian capital

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On the surface, Munich doesn’t seem like the wildest of German cities. Compared to Berlin, it’s downright sleepy. But look beyond the high-end retailers, blemish-free luxury cars at every corner and pristine, seemingly garbage-less streets, and you’ll ﬁnd pockets of offbeat charm bringing unexpected quirk to the Bavarian metropolis.

Flights of fancy

As anyone who’s ever languished in LAX getting their soul pummelled by a nearby sports bar playing R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” and other flight-positive songs can attest, airports are terrible places to hang out. Well, most airports. Not to lay it on too thick, but Munich Airport is an attraction unto itself. Ranked best airport in Europe and number four in the world by a survey of 14 million passengers worldwide, Europe’s first and only five-star airport feels more like an extension of the

city than a stress-ﬁlled hub for airborne cattle carts. In addition to tennis matches, auto shows, biking and culinary events, the plaza under the roof of the Munich Airport Centre transforms itself into Europe’s longest running winter market from the end of November to the end of December. Restaurant-wise, there’s a refreshing lack of fast food chains save for one lonely McDonald’s, and the shopping is top notch. And then there’s the beer factor. Airbräu bills itself as the only brewery located at an airport, and its airy beer garden can seat up to 600 imbibers. Serving three different types of beer brewed onsite, along with several seasonal sips and a carb-loaded cornucopia of diet-killing Bavarian dishes, Airbräu also boasts arguably the most affordable beer in town at 2,75 Euros for a 500ml glass. Sweet relief.

Garden variety

Once in the city, be sure to take a stroll through Munich’s sprawling

Englische Garten (English Garden). Bigger than New York’s Central Park, it’s one of the largest urban parks in the world and gets its name from its English country-park-style layout. Built in 1789, it has grown and changed over the years. For the 1972 Olympics, a Japanese pagoda and teahouse was erected, while a 78-kilometre network of paths invites cyclists, joggers and amblers to explore the lush, tree-lined grounds. All of which might explain the presence of several beer gardens in the park, including the Hirschgarten. Able to accommodate up to 8,000 lager heads, it’s the largest beer garden in Bavaria, if not the world.

Ride the wave

As a landlocked city 500 kilometres from the ocean, Munich doesn’t exactly scream “surﬁng hotspot.” But thanks to a humanmade standing wave in a section of a human-made river, adventurous wetsuit warriors have created an unlikely and sought-out surf destination.

Located at the entrance of Englische Garten, the Eisbach (German for ice brook) is a two-kilometre offshoot of the Isar River. Beginning in the early 1970s, a growing group of guerrilla surfers started dipping their boards in the icy waters and they eluded authorities until the practice was ﬁnally legalized in 2010. Today, the oncesecretive sport has become its own tourist attraction with iPhone-wielding onlookers often outnumbering the river riders.

Beemer me up

Even if you’re not a car buff, the BMW Museum delivers an entertaining dose of history and automobile eye candy. Located near Olympiapark, the museum’s space-age 1973 architecture, and the modern spectacle of BMW Welt showroom across the road, is worth a visit on its own.

Man in the memorial

Anyone who walks down Munich’s Promenadeplatz will notice there’s one statue that gets more love than any

other — that of Orlande de Lassus. However, the ongoing stream of fresh ﬂowers, balloons, photos, homemade posters, candles, trinkets and personalized notes aren’t for the Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer who died 1594. They’re for Michael Jackson. The makeshift shrine has been going strong since the King of Pop’s death in 2009 and, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, adorns Orlande de Lassus’s statue because it stands in front of the swanky Hotel Bayerischer Hof, where Jackson once stayed. In case you’re wondering, it’s not the same hotel where Jackson infamously dangled his child, Blanket, out the window for paparazzi and adoring fans. That was the Hotel Adlon in Berlin. The memorial hasn’t been without controversy, however. In 2015, the Telegraph reported that a scufﬂe between rival groups of fans, calling themselves MJ’s Legacy and MJ Memorial Munich, turned violent, with

one woman claiming a rival fan threw a glass candle-holder at her. Authorities stepped in and government ofﬁcials warned the memorial would have to, ahem, “beat it” if the two groups couldn’t get along. “If peaceful coexistence between the different groups of fans behind the Michael Jackson memorial is not possible, then sadly the memorial will have to be removed,” the Bavarian culture ministry said in a letter to the fan groups. It seemed to do the trick, and the Jackson memorial continues to burn bright. Shamone. This writer was a guest of Lufthansa and Kempinski hotels, neither of which reviewed or approved this story prior to publication. @Midlifeman1

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Meet the 2018 Vancouver Pride Parade grand marshals MELISSA SHAW

The Vancouver Pride Society has announced its 2018 Pride Parade grand marshals. “After our Indigenous entries the grand marshals open up the Pride Parade,” says VPS executive director Andrea Arnot. The 2018 Vancouver Pride Parade’s grand marshals are Laurie McDonald, Ron Dutton and A Mile in Our Moccasins. “Two of our grand marshals have a rich history of being involved with Pride and the queer community for 40 years and a Mile in Our Moccasins is a group of young people who are doing amazing work,” says Arnot. Laurie McDonald is a Two Spirit from the Enoch Cree Nation near Edmonton, Alta. His family accepted

him as he, but in 1960 he was scooped and placed in the Ermineskin Indian Residential School where he faced prejudice, sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect.

After our Indigenous entries the grand marshals open up the Pride Parade ANDREA ARNOT VPS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

After leaving the school he worked as an educator and front-line child protection social worker and is now an instructor for Aboriginal social workers. He was one of the founders of the Greater Vancouver Native Cultural Two Spirit Society, which has served as a surrogate family and culture forum for Two Spirit people and their allies.

Ron Dutton began working on the B.C. Gay and Lesbian Archives in the mid-1970s using his library science skills to document the political activism of the gay liberation movement.

After 42 years, the library has grown to contain three-quarters-of-amillion items, including pamphlets, press reports and posters. The collection was moved to the City of Vancouver Archives in March for conservation, public access and conversion into searchable, permanent formats. Dutton encourages others to add their memorabilia to the ever-evolving story of the LGBTQIA2+ communities. A Mile in Our Moccasins is a short film created by five Indigenous youth living with HIV. The idea to create the film evolved

Ron Dutton used his library science skills to document the political activism of the gay liberation movement. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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with scientific facts, Indigenous culture and spirituality. The film aims to fight HIV stigma, address HIV myths, raise awareness and awaken compassion in viewers. A Mile in Our Moccasins is described as a

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Hearts ﬂutter as Ryan Reynolds offers video tribute to Rio Theatre John Kurucz

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Hollywood North’s Alisters and gushing video tributes to the Rio Theatre have been like two peas in a pod this week. On Monday, it was Ryan Reynolds’ turn to show the love at screenings of both Deadpool films that netted $10,000 in donations towards the theatre’s ongoing fight for financial survival. There was plenty of talk that Hunky McHunkerson would be at the Rio, but alas, he was working in New York City and his schedule prevented the cross-continental trek. Instead, he sent the Rio’s operator Corinne Lea and company a video showing solidarity and support. “I’m so grateful to you guys for not only being here tonight watching these movies, but for standing up for what is right, something that is amazing, something that is just — which is the Rio Theatre,” Reynolds said from his hotel in the Big Apple. Rumour on the street was that Seth Rogen was poised to offer up a similar message as part of a Freaks and Geeks documentary slated to screen

Tuesday night, after the Courier’s print deadline. That high-proﬁle help comes the same week as Lea stretched her fundraising drive into the 11th hour. The most recent deadline to purchase the Rio was July 7, but has been pushed back to the end of July. A crowdfunding drive via FrontFundr to recruit investors was also extend-

I’m really trying to get this done well before that.” Lea’s ongoing push got a nice boost Monday in the form of a $10,000 cheque from the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia. On top of the oversized novelty cheque, Mayor Gregor Robertson proclaimed this week as Save the Rio Week.

I’m so grateful to you guys for not only being here tonight watching these movies, but for standing up for what is right, something that is amazing, something that is just — which is the Rio Theatre. Ryan Reynolds

ed, as the deadline in that context was moved to July 16 instead of June 28. As of now, about $800,000 hangs in the balance for Lea and a team of investors to buy the Rio from retired independent theatre owner Leonard Schein. “I want to get this done as soon as possible,” Lea told the Courier Tuesday. “July 31 is the deadline but

“Aside from declaring it as Save the Rio Week, [Robertson] said he would talk to the province to see if there is a way to help,” Lea said. “But I don’t know what exactly he has planned.” @JohnKurucz The Rio’s FrontFundr page is online at frontfundr.com/ Company/rio_theatre.

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Dunbar soccer champs reunite, 40 years later Hodge’s Stong’s only lost twice in nine year history Jessica Kerr

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It’s been 40 years since the Dunbar Stong’s select soccer team capped off a nine-season run by winning the Canadian championship — and they’re getting together to celebrate. A team reunion is set for July 8 at the Meraloma Clubhouse at Connaught Park. The team, which became known as Hodge’s Stong’s to distinguish it from other teams in the Dunbar Soccer Association, was ﬁrst organized in the summer of 1969 when coaches Spud Hodge and Geoff Smith took over the nine-year-old select team. Players were selected from the house league to play in the seventh division (10-yearolds) of the community league, which was a new concept for the DSA at the time. The team went on to play in the Vancouver District League the next season. Hodge’s Stong’s was successful from the start,

The Hodge’s Stong’s team of 1977-’78. A 40-year team reunion is set for July 8.

winning every league game that first season, finishing in first place in league play, and making it to the second round of the provincial cup playoffs before getting knocked out by Marpole 3-1 in extra time at Sunset Park. The team was off and continued for the next eight years. The roster changed from season to season, but three players — Steve Smith,

Jim Armstrong and Rob McGinley — stayed with the team from 1969 until that last game in 1978. Coach Spud Hodge also stayed with the team for all nine seasons. “We had a couple different assistant coaches and managers but he was the staple throughout,” Smith said. Over nine seasons the team played 138 league

games with an overall record of 131 wins, ﬁve ties and two losses. “We ended up winning provincial championships just about every year we were playing. I believe we were the winningest sports team in Dunbar history,” Smith said. He credits Hodge, who was just 22 when the team started in 1969, with the team’s success.

“It really starts at the top and it was his… constant dedication to the team and also to running the practices every week and just being there, just the consistency and determination.” Hodge, on the other hand, said his coaching had little to do with the group’s almost flawless record. “I would be fibbing to say that I was a great coach — I was not,” he told the Courier. “The success of that team was largely due to the kids themselves, all good athletes, super keen and enthusiastic, had a real good concept of ‘team,’ and they were supported by terrific parents.” Four players went on to play professionally — Ivano Belfiore, Ralston Dunlop, Steve Nesin and Carl Shearer. Dunlop and Shearer played for the Vancouver Whitecaps in the early 1980s. Nesin played for the Whitecaps and the San Diego Sockers, while Belfiore’s professional career

spanned a decade and saw him play for teams throughout North America, including the Vancouver 86ers and Edmonton Brickmen. Smith and Connie McGinley, whose husband Rob played for the team, are organizing July’s reunion. “I’ve reached out to as many people as I could ﬁnd, as you can imagine, 40 years later sometimes people aren’t around, but we’ve got people coming in from Alberta and all over the Lower Mainland,” Smith said. McGinley said they started with just trying to get the word out on social media. “Slowly but surely we’ve been tracking them all down,” she said. A number of former players have already conﬁrmed they’ll be there for the reunion, as well as Coach Hodge. “We’ll see if we can recognize anyone. We’ve all got a little less hair and maybe a little more weight,” Smith said. @JessicaEKerr

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VSO to perform free concert at Sunset Beach Jessica Kerr

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The strains of Vivaldi, John Williams and Leonard Bernstein will ﬁll the air at Sunset Beach Park this summer. The Vancouver Park Board and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will present the ﬁrst-ever Symphony at Sunset. Set for Saturday, July 14, the free open-air concert will mark the start of the

VSO’s 100th anniversary season. “[The] setting will combine the scenic assets of our city with the cultural assets of our symphony,” said Kelly Tweeddale, president of the Vancouver Symphony Society and the VSO School of Music. “In the great cities of the world, free concerts like this become a place where families can come together and experience the magnitude of a symphony per-

formance and build lasting traditions.” Symphony at Sunset will be the ﬁrst free outdoor VSO concert in the city since 2011, when the orchestra played in Stanley Park to mark Vancouver’s 125th birthday. The VSO plays only a handful out outdoor concerts each year — others this season are in Whistler over the Canada Day long weekend and in Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park on July 8.

Non-Partisan Association commissioner SarahKirby Yung, who initially brought the motion to approve a partnership with VSO to the board in 2016, said she hopes the Symphony at Sunset will become an annual event in the city. “What is better than music in our parks?” she said. The free family-friendly event will include a preconcert program performed by student ensembles from

the VSO School of Music followed by a sunset concert performed by the VSO. The performance, led by assistant conductor William Rowson, will include a broad selection of symphonic hits including music from Leonard Bernstein, excerpts from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and John Williams’ Star Wars scores. The event will include food trucks on site and the public is encouraged to bring a picnic and a blanket.

Concertgoers are asked to bring low chairs so as to not obstruct the view of other audience members. The park board and VSO estimate more than 7,000 people will attend Symphony at Sunset. People are encouraged to walk, cycle or take public transit to the event. The pre-concert will start at 7:15 p.m. with the main event running from 8:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. @JessicaEKerr

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drafted Quinn Hughes if the Arizona Coyotes didn’t go off the board with the ﬁfth pick. Barrett Hayton was ranked 12th by International Scouting Services, but surprisingly jumped into the top-ﬁve, allowing Hughes to slide. Manukyan holds the record for most points in a season in the MHL, Russia’s junior league. He put up 39 goals and 105 points in 60 games during the 2016-17 season.

Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to Jim Benning for trading down in the sixth round to draft Manukyan. The Russian winger likely wasn’t high on many draft lists, so Benning was able to add an additional sixth round pick in 2019 by moving down 25 picks.

At 6’0”, Jett Woo was the tallest skater picked by the Canucks at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.

It’s a pick that echoes the sixth round of last year’s draft, when they selected 5’6” Petrus Palmu, who has since signed with the Canucks and could potentially play NHL games this season. The Canucks run of undersized players in the 2018 draft finally ended in the seventh round with 6’2” goaltender Matthew Thiessen. Of course, by goaltender standards, 6’2” is average height. Excluding Thiessen, the average height of the five players selected by the Canucks was 5’10”. Their average weight, according to how they’re listed by the NHL, is 166 lbs. That is a very small draft class. It stands in stark contrast to Benning’s first draft as GM of the Canucks. In the 2014 draft, Benning went with size over skill with his first pick, taking 6’1”, 210-lbs winger Jake Virtanen sixth overall ahead of Nikolay Ehlers and William Nylander. In the third round, he drafted 6’7” Nikita Tryamkin, who had a decent debut with the Canucks before heading back to Russia.

Both were defensible picks and could still be great players for the Canucks, even if a smaller, more skilled player might have been a better choice. In the last two rounds of the draft, however, Benning and his scouting staff went with two larger players with limited upside: 6’4” Kyle Pettit and 6’5” Mackenze Stewart. Late round picks are always a gamble, but it made little sense to take that gamble on such limited players. At best, Pettit and Stewart might have become fourth-line forwards — the Canucks tried to turn Stewart, a defenceman, into a winger — and fourthliners are readily available on the free agent market on league-minimum contracts. Taking a chance on someone like Manukyan, who has a signiﬁcantly higher ceiling, is a much smarter gamble.

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• Stick-tap to Quinn Hughes, who showed tremendous conﬁdence after he was picked by the Canucks, suggesting he could play in the NHL as soon as next season, and that his smaller size won’t be an issue. He might still return to the University of Michigan for one more year, but it’s great to see his faith in his own abilities.

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might be broken only by a single frustrated beep as someone does something particularly stupid. For the latter, the horn is a way to say Hello! How goes it! Look at me! Is that the new Mustang! I like your baby! Sorry about making your baby cry! Well, it was a pretty ugly baby anyway! and so on. Everyone else falls roughly in the middle. However, there are nuances for the skilled horn users among us. The Canadian Double Tap is a unique horn use which is intended to convey polite attention-getting without causing aggravation. Use when passing up your right of way to keep traffic moving. Then there’s the Come On The Light’s Gone Green, which has a sliding scale: a light tap if the driver ahead is staring out the window, a full on benchpress if they’re surreptitiously checking their text messages. All of the above have their uses. However, I’ve also noticed that there’s more than a little impatient use of the horn in traffic, especially by people who should really pay more attention. Often, a driver will slow for a pedestrian, or a bicycle, or just because there’s the potential for a confusing situation to get dangerous. Very common is people getting honked at for not turning into an intersection because they’re waiting for a pedestrian to cross (which the other driver can’t see, perhaps being a bit too much in a rush). Which is why, at last, I’m announcing my impending patent for the most important invention to improve the automobile since the steering wheel: the rear-facing car horn. Think about it. Modern cars may be electric. They may have to contend with autonomous vehicles, and they may have to share space with crowdshared electric scooters or increased bicycle traffic. But one thing that will not change, at least until the controls of the automobile are completely in robotic control, is that certain people will use their horns when they shouldn’t. And, while I’m all for civilized motoring, with understanding and kindness for every road user, I hardly need tell you how delightful it would be to blister the paint off the hood of some honk-happy idiot by the application of a rear-mounted sonic weapon. Honk if you must, but don’t be surprised if we honk back.

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